Oh thank goodness somebody responded to that article. I was thinking about writing a rather long response out of my frustration.

We need coders now more than ever. When things are becoming homogeneous is when we need people to change things up again and make them better. Everybody has picked up on something good and put it in their stuff, but you can’t innovate without coders. You set it pretty well, “coding really is the new literacy.” For the foreseeable future we’re going to need coders to keep innovating. Can’t do it without them. (sorry for repeating my self, I just feel strongly about this.)